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Archive for June, 2008

Vista Icon Set

by David Qiao on Jun.30, 2008, under Icons, JIDE

After a few month preparation, we got one more icon set ready. It is for Windows Vista this time. It has the same number of icons as the first XP icons except it gets bigger. The Vista style is more realistic than illustrative, but not quite photorealistic. Icons have a maximum size of 256×256 pixels (comparing to 64×64 maximum in XP icon set), making them suitable for high-dpi (dots per inch) displays. These high-resolution icons allow for high visual quality in list views with large icons. We tried to use the same design idea as the existing Vista’s icon so that your application looks consistent with any native Vista applications.
 
Here are some links for this icon set.
 
Vista Icons
 
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Arrow key support in ButtonPanel

by David Qiao on Jun.22, 2008, under JIDE, Java and Swing

There is one missing feature in ButtonPanel. That’s the arrow key support. On Windows (probably on Mac as well), people get used to use left or right keys to navigate among buttons on a horizontal button panel or up/down keys for vertical button panel. However Swing doesn’t have that. For example, in the JOptionPane, arrow keys don’t change button focus. So I decide to add this feature. it has about 200 lines simple code. I included it below. The javadoc tells you how to use it. It is already checked in to JIDE Common Layer so feel free to check it out and use it. JIDE’s ButtonPanel called it already. JideOptionPane, since it uses ButtonPanel, also works beautifully.

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Support Synthetica L&F in JIDE

by David Qiao on Jun.17, 2008, under JIDE

I had been working closely with Wolfgang in last couple of months or so trying to support Synthetica L&F in all JIDE product lines. I am glad to say we are finally there. You can find some nice screenshots of our demos under various Synthetica themes below. They are all taken under JIDE 2.2.8 release with Synthetica 2.7.2/SyntheticaAddons 0.9.7.

Wolfgang, thanks for the support. The Synthetica L&F looks awesome.

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Slides and demo source code for my JavaOne 2008 BOF session

by David Qiao on Jun.06, 2008, under Conferences, Java and Swing, Technology

As I mentioned before, I had an interesting BOF session for the this year JavaOne. The title is “Workaround Swing Bugs”. Even though it was conflicted with the afterdark party, there was still a decent number of people showed up. Since several people asked for it, I post the slides and the demo source code below.

Slides for BOF-5133
Demo Souce Code for BOF-5133

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